ANNUAL REPORT. 



DmiuL,' the year the laws of the Society have been revised. 

 Two changes of importance have been made : 1st, the admission, 

 as Associates, of young persons between the ages of fourteen 

 and nineteen, who enjoy, without payment of any subscription, 

 all the privileges of membership, except that of voting ; 2nd, 

 the creation of a body of seven Trustees, in whom the property 

 of the Society will Le vested by deed. The following were 

 elected Trustees at a Special Meeting of the Society held on 

 August 10th, 1880, namely :— Messrs. E. W. Badger, W. 

 Graham, W. E. Hughes, J. Levick, C. Pumphrey, W. 

 Southall, and E, Tonks. 



The Committee have great pleasure in calling attention to 

 the fact that, in accordance with the arrangement mentioned in 

 the Keport of last year, all the papers written during the present 

 year by members for the " Midland Naturalist," or read before 

 the Societ}^ and afterwards published in that magazine, will 

 be reprinted and bound up with this Eeport. 



Nineteen Committee Meetings and eighteen Sub-Committee 

 Meetings have been held, and the attendance has been as 

 follows : — 



